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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : derivative of any of several compound names formed with Middle High German vuoter ‘feed’, ‘fodder’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a furrier, from Yiddish ‘fur’, ‘fur coat’.

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